No-code Trust World Wide Public CAs using Appdome

Trust World Wide Public CAs: This KB article describes how to implement Appdome’s Trust World Wide Public CAs in any Android or iOS app. This feature will designate a list of trusted public CAs to the mobile device’s trust store which will be verified by Appdome when establishing a TLS session.

About Appdome’s Trust World Wide Public CAs feature

Mobile devices come with an OEM list of built-in public certificate authorities (CA). However, certificates and CAs can be altered by hackers or installed on devices and apps in malicious ways (without anyone knowing). This makes it hard to know if the list of CAs currently installed on the device can actually be trusted (because they could have been altered).  Using Appdome, you can solve this problem. Appdome maintains an up to date list of Public trusted CA(s), which is continuously updated with the various worldwide trusted CA authorities (such as Verisign,  Go-Daddy, etc). Appdome inspects certificates and CAs at runtime to ensure that alterations have not been made.

When an SSL/TLS session is initiated with a mobile app,  Appdome compares the CAs currently installed on the mobile device against the updated list of trusted CAs that Appdome maintains. If the CAs on the device do not match the trusted CA list maintained by Appdome, the session is dropped.

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Trust World Wide Public CAs using Appdome

Appdome is a no-code mobile security and mobile integration platform that allows users to add security features, like RASP, code obfuscation, data encryption and more, as well as mobile threat, mobile fraud, anti-bot and other SDKs and APIs to Android and iOS apps. This KB describes how to use Appdome’s simple ‘click to build’ user interface to quickly and easily build Trusted Session Protection into any mobile app – instantly, no code or coding required.

Prerequisites for using Appdome Trusted Session

• Appdome account
• Appdome account – IDEAL or higher.
• Mobile application (.ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android)
• Signing credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)
• Private CAs

Please follow these steps to add a mobile application to your Appdome account.
If you don’t have an Appdome account, click here to create an account.

From the “Build” tab, go to the Security menu

1. Click  Secure Communications to expand the bundle.
2. Click on the toggle to enable Trusted Session.
3. (optional) Fill out the custom message that is displayed in case of a security event.
4. MiTM Prevention will be automatically enabled on your app
5. Malicious Proxy Detection will be automatically enabled on your app
6. Prohibit Stale Sessions option will be automatically enabled on your app
7. Trust World Wide Public CAs option will be automatically enabled on your app
8. Enable +DEV Events to configure this security alert on your app.
   

To learn more you can read this KB article on Appdome Trusted Session.

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